It appears that 12 is a VERY lucky number for Arcadia Contemporary. In the 12th month of the year, the gallery hosted it's first-ever, group exhibition featuring paintings measuring 12 by 12 inches and before the doors opened, over 30 original works were acquired by collectors from...

Between 1841 and 1844 Turner made four extensive journeys to the heart of the Alps. Despite his advancing years, his enthusiasm for the spectacular scenery, the fresh air and the unique quality of light was unquenchable and during those summers.

Sir Tristram de Lyonesse was one of the greatest of Arthurian knights. He was the son of Mediodas, King of Lyones and Elizabeth of Cornwall and revered not only for his fearlessness in battle but his hunting prowess.

The naked figure of Aurora leads the chariot with four horses, driven by a maestoso Apollo, the goddess initiating the day and therefore alluding, appropriately enough for the location, to the passing of time, while in the background various zodiacal signs surround the semicircle of the radiant sun.

Houdon's portraits of the celebrated author, philosopher and man of letters, François-Marie Arouet, called Voltaire (1694-1778), are among the sculptor's most famous images. In 1778 Houdon was anxious to add a portrait of Voltaire to his collection of “great men of the Enlightenment”.

This dramatic and moving image of the Crucifixion was made by the anonymous artist known as the 'Monvaerni' Master, the rarest and earliest of the Limoges enamel painters to be recognized as a specific artistic personality.

Shanghai-based artist Xu Zhen is continuing to challenge the boundaries of what a gallery can be, turning his Shanghai venue to the purposes of satirizing the Western all-service notion of the gallery.

Global powerhouse Hauser & Wirth seems to manage it all—operating multiple New York spaces as well as spots in London, Somerset, Zurich, and Los Angeles—mounting museum quality shows from artists’ estates as well as cutting edge work by contemporary stars like Rashid Johnson and Subodh Gupta.

Eye-popping architecture by the late Zaha Hadid set Gmurzynska’s exhibition “Kurt Schwitters: Merz” apart. The sinuous, unearthly shapes were in homage to Schwitters’s Merzbau, his Hanover home, which he transformed into a forerunner of installation art.

A light bulb went off in Adam Shopkorn’s head when he realized that a former meatpacking district restaurant, a Greek Revival row house built in 1849 near Gansevoort Street, was sitting empty since it had shuttered.